Pipistrellus wattsi Kitchener, Caputi & B. Jones 1986 ...

• Main Authors: Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Lynx Edicions 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Chiroptera; Vespertilionidae; Pipistrellus; Pipistrellus wattsi; Pipistrellus pipistrellus; Lynx
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6567699; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6567699

46. Watts’s Pipistrelle Pipustrellus wattsi French: Pipistrelle de Watts / German: \Watts-Zwergfledermaus / Spanish: Pipistrela de Watts Taxonomy. Pipistrellus watts: Kitchener, Caputi & B. Jones, 1986, “Iepala, Papua New Guinea (8°05’S, 146°12’E).” Specimens attributed to P. wattsi were originally included under P. tenuis and P. papuanus until it was described. Monotypic. Distribution. SE Papua New Guinea and Samarai I. Descriptive notes. Head-body 34-5-40-7 mm, tail 19-4-28-5 mm, ear 9-4— 11: 9 mm, hindfoot 5-4-8-1 mm, forearm 28-32-8 mm; weight 3-4 g (one specimen). Dorsal of Watts’s Pipistrelle pelage is dark blackish brown (bone-brown tipped and black basal two-thirds of hair); ventral pelage is buffier, with black-based hairs and pinkish buff tips. Uropatagium is lightly furred and pinkish buff around venation. Wings below humerus are heavily furred, with pinkish buff hairs. Ears are more rounded and less triangular than in other Papuan pipistrelles; tragus is ¢.50% the height of ear and has larger ... : Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Vespertilionidae, pp. 716-981 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 783, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6397752 ...